Intermediate
[,ɪntə'miːdɪət] or [,ɪntɚ'midɪət]
Definition
(noun.) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained.
(adj.) lying between two extremes in time or space or state; 'going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands'; 'intermediate stages in a process'; 'intermediate stops on the route'; 'an intermediate range plane' .
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Definition
(a.) Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermediate space or time; intermediate colors.
(v. i.) To come between; to intervene; to interpose.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intervening, interposed, interjacent.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Intervening, included, interposed, comprised, middle, moderate, interjacent
ANT:Circumjacent, surrounding, enclosing, embracing, outside, extreme, excluded,exclusive
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Definition
adj. in the middle between: intervening—also Intermē′diary Intermē′dial.—ns. Intermē′diacy state of being intermediate; Intermē′diary an intermediate agent.—adv. Intermē′diately.—n. Intermediā′tion act of intermediating; Intermē′dium a medium between: an intervening agent or instrument.
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Examples
- The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone--a sort of slag. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the words of Dalton, oxygen may combine with a certain portion of nitrous gas [as he called nitric oxide], or with twice that po rtion, but with no intermediate portion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I have met with striking instances of the rule in the case of varieties intermediate between well-marked varieties in the genus Balanus. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The intermediate month was the one fixed on, as far as they dared, by Emma and Mr. Knightley. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Then the intermediate state of rest will be pleasure and will also be pain? Plato. The Republic.
- Then you would infer that opinion is intermediate? Plato. The Republic.
- Just as we come to know them better, intermediate forms flow in, and doubts as to specific limits augment. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The low pressure cylinders are 106 inches in diameter, the intermediate cylinders are 73. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Still, works of art have a permanent element; they idealize and detain the passing thought, and are the intermediates between sense and ideas. Plato. The Republic.
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